‘Only Murders in the Building’: How Alfred Hitchcock Inspired Mabel’s Season 2 Look

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Subtle details in costume design, hairstyling and even production design showed the growth and progression of Selena Gomez’s Mabel in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” Season 2 begins where the first left off — Mabel is the prime suspect after being found by the side of the dead body of Bunny, who lives in the same building as Mabel, Oliver (Martin Short) and Charles (Steve Martin).

When audiences were first introduced to Mabel in Season 1, she’s someone who is trying to protect herself. Costume designer Dana Covarrubias says, “I put her in chunky- soled boots and big puffy coats and jackets that create this sense of a protective armor around her.” As the season progresses and she begins to connect with Oliver and Charles, she softens up.

Solving a murder and being implicated in a murder brings the podcasting trio closer together. Since no time lapses between the end of Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2, Covarrubias couldn’t change Mabel too drastically.

So she looked at how to show change, and was inspired in part by costume designer Edith Head and director Alfred Hitchcock (Head worked a lot with Hitchcock from the 1950s on).